NUFORC Sighting 13746

Occurred: 2000-07-16 04:30 Local
Reported: 2000-08-11 00:00 Pacific
Duration: about 6 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Mananita, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere

bright green ball of light

Going West on I-8, there was a fairly large green ball of light descending to the ground at about the horizon to my left. It was bright green, the color of a green light stick, brightly glowing. It was maybe one-eighth the size of the moon, too large and falling too slowly to be a shooting star. My brother was driving, and did see green light out of the corner of his eye, but when I yelled at him to look, he was busy avoiding the driver in the next lane over, who was slowing down and swerving all of a sudden. I'm sure he was seeing it too. I've never seen anything like it, but would like to know what it was.

Posted 2000-08-19